>> midco supports c-span as a public service along with these other providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> david packer became the first witness to testify in the hush money trial of former president trump. 's testimony will continue tomorrow. he is expected to detail how the national enquirer aided his 2016 campaign with an arrangement burying negative stories about then candidate trump. it will resume tuesday morning with a hearing on whether he will be held in contempt restricting him from speaking publicly about witnesses and others involved in the case.

>> i think it went very well. you heard it yourself, this is a case nobody wanted to bring. looking back, it goes back many years, 2013 and before that. it is a case as to bookkeeping which is a very minor thing in terms of all the crime going on outside as we speak, right outside as we speak. this is a case where you pay a lawyer and they call it a legal expense. that is the exact term they use, legal expense, in the books.

another thing that was not even said is they never deducted it as a tax deduction. most people want to deduct everything. [indiscernible] they call a payment to a lawyer a legal expense in the books. they called it a payment to a lawyer. he is a law your. represented a lot of people over the years. i am not the only one. was not very good in a lot of ways in terms of his representation pretty represented a lot of people. he puts in an invoice or whatever, a bill, and they pay it. they call it a legal expense. nobody had been able to say what you are supposed to call it. when a lawyer puts in a bill or invoice and you pay the bill and

there is a very small little line. they mark it down as a legal expense. i got indicted. i am deleting candidate. i am beating biden. i am leading the republicans. i have the nomination. this is what they try to take me off the trail for. checks being paid to a lawyer, was a lawyer. the thing he got in trouble forward things that had nothing to do with me. he went to jail. this had nothing to do with me put this had to do with the company he owned which is something he owned. it had nothing to do with me. he represented a lot of people over the years. but they take this payment and

they call it a legal expense. this is what i got indicted on. this takes me off the campaign trail. i should be in georgia now. i should be in a lot of different places right now campaigning. i am sitting here. this will go on for a long time. it is very unfair. it is very unfair what is going on. i should be allowed to campaign. whoever heard of this? you got indicted for that? people say they cannot believe it. the other thing is if this was such a great case, why did the southern district turn it down? why did numerous other agencies and law enforcement groups look at it? it would show everybody. more importantly, why did federal elections not do anything about it. it is federal.

they tried to make it a state case. it is not a state case. it never happened before. this has never happened before where the state tries to insert itself in federal elections. nobody has ever seen it. they said essentially nothing was done wrong or they would have done something about it. they would have done something about it. but they said nothing. they said we passed. they could not even believe it. they could not even believe it. they were incredulous. when he first came in, he did not want to deal with it. he did not want to do it. look at what pomerantz did. that is bad stuff.

look at the last trial. he got caught lying. when are they going to look at that? just a few blocks away, they had a trial with letitia james. it is all coming out of the white house, by the way. the judge did not know anything. he says supposing it goes down. it does not go down. i put up $175 million in cash. we have a bonding company. they tell him the bonding company is not good. they also have $175 million in collateral. the judge did not know anything about it. he did not know what the $175 million catchment. he had no idea what anything meant.

he charged me hundreds of millions of dollars for somebody totally innocent. if you look at what happened today, it should have gone to the business division. if you look at the numbers, they are underestimated, i underestimated. it is the opposite of what they said. they did it for their own narrative. they valued other assets to build the narrative. i have a complete record of what happened. he had no idea what was going on. did not understand the most simple context. this is the man that took a

case. they are moving out of new york because they will be put out of business. they are moving out of new york because it. the judge had absolutely no idea what happened. he said, what happens if it goes up or down? they said it does not. we put up all-cash. the deal was approved with the attorney general, if you can believe that. the deal was approved. she just tried to embarrass everybody. she tried to embarrass a very good bonding company by saying they were not credit worthy. they were credit worthy. what is more important is they had the 175 million dollars i put up. the point is they had no idea what was happening.

this is the same judge that made a ruling that shook the world, it shook the world. everyone knows during the trial, i did nothing wrong. and here, i did nothing wrong also. this is a witch hunt to keep me off the campaign trail. so far, it is not working because the public understands it is a witch hunt. thank you very much. >> [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] >> thursday, the supreme c hears oral arguments in a case on whether former presiden trump has presidential immunity against criminal prosecutio his alleged role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. our live cover begins at

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